“The positive problem” of having record big racing fleet in the ORCi Worlds has caused a demanding challenge to ORC and Organizing club Merenkävijät. First decision was to split the fleet to two separate race courses. Then we had to decide how to split about 130 boats to these courses and when doing this guarantee manageable and at the same good quality racing. This all has taken time and we regret this delay in publishing the dividing GPH.
ORC and Merenkävijät have now agreed to decide and publish mainlines of the race format.
1. In the Class A the competing boats have GPH under 615. This class sails “traditionally” in one group throughout the racing week. The size of this Class is about 40 boats.
2. In the Class B of about 80+ competing boats the boats have GPH of 615 or higher. This group is divided to two Heats equally sized selecting alternate boats from the entry list in order of GPH. These Heats sail qualifying races from Monday to Wednesday (or at least 1 offshore race and issued minimum of inshore races). After this Qualifying Round the boats for Heats in the Final Round are determined by their results. Boats with the lowest scores will sail in Class B Gold Fleet and boats with highest scores in Class B Silver Fleet.
Press release with precise wording of this format is going to be published on the ORC site www.orc.org immediately.
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